A decree on sanctions at school is being prepared, explained Minister Désir to Parliament.
Punish the whole class for a handful of students who heckle, a contested but still too widespread practice that will soon be officially banned. Following a question from deputy André Antoine (Les Engagés), the Minister of Education Caroline Désir (PS) indeed explained that a decree prohibiting collective punishment in the schools of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation was in preparation course. The Wallonia-Brussels Federation would therefore follow in the footsteps of France, which banned collective sanctions more than twenty years ago..